Q: Using a lot of oil now

asked by on October 29, 2015

My 2007 Chevrolet Silverado with 50,000 miles on it is fairly low mileage for its model year. For the last 10,000 miles or so the truck went through a quart of oil every 2,000 miles or so. I didn’t really think much of it as I use my truck for work pretty regularly. Recently though, I have had to add at least a quart every thousand miles. Nothing seems broken, but this problem is getting expensive! How can I stop the oil consumption?

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